Just to be clear, Goodell has already stated the punishment handed down to the Patriots and Belichick was for the totality of Belichick’s career with the Patriots:

Goodell explained that the league’s penalty against the Patriots early last season was for the totality of the team’s videotaping actions, and that coach Bill Belichick acknowledged he had videotaped opposing signals since the start of his Patriots head coaching career.

No Rams’s tape, no more punishment. The above quote was conveniently left out of the New York Times article, but quoted in the Boston Globe article which, I’m sure, everyone here will trust implicitly ;-).

If the NFL made a deal to get these tapes, it must be something they haven’t seen before. My understanding was that the material turned over was only from the Jets game where they were actually caught. I can’t see where the penalty already applied was for more than just the 2007 season. They had no evidence before that this was standard operating procedure for the pats – especially against division rivals.. The commissioner if he is coming down hard on players will HAVE to do something – to Belichick at least in order to maintain any kind of credibility… Both with the players, other owners and most importantly the fans…

It apparently didn’t meet ESPN’s standards to run. ESPN will run anything as we’ve seen with the Marvin story, so there can’t be much to the Herald’s story.

I’m disappointed.

Or ESPN is wrong again and the Herald has real evidence that they don’t. (crossing my fingers).

Again folks, Walsh has yet to meet with Goodell. After that meeting, we will have a better idea of what all the hush-hush crap is about. Regardless of this outcome, the incident has damaged Bill Belichick’s reputation and tarnished the once proud legacy of the New England Patriots. That, in and of itself, might be punishment enough.

Also, New England could have used that extra first round pick this year. Their defense gets older and slower by the second, and Laurence Maroney is not a reliable RB.

I’ll be glad to have this over and done soon. If there is new info, punish it appropriately and let’s move on. If there is nothing there or nothing that hasn’t been addressed, let it go and let’s move on. Either way, I want to get back to just enjoying the greatest sport on earth, football. It’s a game where chess-like strategy meets meets smash-mouth implementation. Pats and Colts games have been classics. Of course the best one was in January of ‘07=p

Any wrong doing should be appropriately addressed, and it may have been already; there may be more, and there may not be. We will see. Once it’s properly dealt with, it should be moved past.